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half-conscious

adjective

  1. only partially alert and awake

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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But the main problem — the open-air drug market in which narcotics are sold and used in public, and users who are slumped half-conscious in an alley, collapsed in the park or staggering about with festering sores from drugs spiked with veterinary tranquilizer — remained a part of the daily scene.

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If Biden was seeking to jolt his half-conscious 2024 re-election campaign into life, this may have done the trick.

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Did he prefer me stoned and half-conscious?

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Finally, Lewis says, “Having allowed ourselves to drift, unresisting, unpraying, accepting every half-conscious solicitation from our desires, we reached a point where we no longer believed the Faith. Just in the same way, a jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend.”

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“I still feel a certain vibe, in the eager coverage of DeSantis’s sag, suggesting that at some half-conscious level the mainstream press really wants the Trump return. They want to enjoy the Trump ratings, they want the GOP defined by Trumpism while they define themselves as democracy’s defenders,” he said.

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